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Re: Brooke Tatnell wins WA Sprintcar Championship
Sat Dec 7, 2013 6:19 pm (PST) .
Posted by: Con Migro
In one of the hardest, toughest most bruising fastest nights of pure Speedway action at Perth Motorplex Speedway Kwinana Beach *Brooke Tatnell formally NSW now the USA won 2013/2014 WA Sprintcar Championship :
SUNDAY~DECEMBER~ 2013 :*
BROOKE Tatnell is the new WA Sprintcar champion after winning the epic 30-lap feature race at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday night. **After a series of aborted attempts that sidelined some of the major contenders Tatnell held off a very fast finishing Cameron Gessner and Shaun Bradford.*
In only his second drive back with the ‘old band’ – the professional Krikke Motorsport operation, Tatnell showed a cool head in heavy lapped traffic late in the race, surviving challenges from both Bradford and Gessner.*
It took some time to get the race going with a handful of restarts. Kye Scroop was the first casualty, not making it past the first corner and a few moments later Jake Beard-Miller, Damian Blacka and Lee Nash were all involved in an incident on the main straight.*
The next restart was caused after Trent Pigdon and Daniel Harding came together on the back straight and on the next attempt David Priolo had contact with Jason Kendrick which then involved Carl Dowling for an open red light situation.*
Luke Dillon, who had won the last three rounds of the **WA** series finished fourth with Brad Maiolo taking fifth and was followed by Ian Loudoun, Jamie Maiolo, Shane Norris, Cale Sotiroff, Sheldon Brady, Matt Young, Ryan Lancaster, Daniel Harding, Jason Pryde and Kent Roberts.*
“It was definitely a stop-start affair in the first few laps,” Tatnell said, relating it to constant stoppages of public transport.*
While his rivals showed their intentions a few times Tatnell said he had a bit in reserve but admitted it was tough in heavy traffic.*
He paid tribute to long-term family friend John Day who is still in hospital.*I said I was going to come here and win this for him and hopefully we can get back to the hospital tomorrow and see him.”*
Gessner said he really wanted to win the title race.“I am happy and sad at the same time, it was a hell of a race.”*
Bradford finally grabbed a podium in the Darren Allen-owned #67 machine.“It was going really good at the start,” Bradford said. “I was just waiting and biding my time and then all of a sudden I had sparks every time hit the brake so I stopped using them as much as I could which made it hard.*
“With the run I have been having I was just lucky to finish.” *
Round seven of the AHG Sprintcar Series will be held at Quit Collie Speedway on December 14. *
Qualifying: Group 1: Luke Dillon 14.093, Mark Wells 14.254, Daniel Harding, Ryan Lancaster 14.555, Jason Boland 14.892, Kent Roberts 14.899, Jason Pryde 14.987. Group 2: Shane Norris 14.488, Cameron Gessner 14.626, Trent Pigdon 14.884, Jamie Maiolo 14.982, Callum Williamson 15.070, Damian Blacka 15.501. Group 3: Brooke Tatnell 14.905, Brad Maiolo 14.964, David Priolo 14.965, Carl Dowling 15.177, Jake Beard-Miller 15.382, Sheldon Brady 15.447, Matt Young 15.591. Group 4: Shaun Bradford 14.681, Jason Kendrick 14.728, Troy Beckingham 14.867, Russell Taylor 14.895, Ian Loudoun 15.100, Kye Scroop 15.208, Cale Sotiroff 15.301.
Heat 1: 1st Jake Beard Miller, 2nd Cameron Gessner, 3rd Lee Nash, 4th Brooke Tatnell, 5th David Priolo, 6th Luke Dillon, 7th Jason Kendrick, 8th Daniel Harding, 9th Callum Williamson, 10th Kye Scroop, 11th Jason Pryde, 12th Russell Taylor. DNF: Jason Boland and Matt Young.
Heat 2: 1st Jamie Maiolo, 2nd Ian Loudoun, 3rd Shaun Bradford, 4th Carl Dowling, 5th Trent Pigdon, 6th Brad Maiolo, 7th Shane Norris, 8th Troy Beckingham, 9th Ryan Lancaster, 10th Kent Roberts, 11th Cale Sotiroff, 12th Sheldon Brady. DNF: Mark Wells and Damian Blacka.
Heat 3: 1st Luke Dillon, 2nd Shaun Bradford, 3rd Jason Kendrick, 4th Daniel Harding, 5th Kye Scroop, 6th Ryan Lancaster, 7th Cale Sotiroff, 8th Jason Pryde, 9th Kent Roberts. DNF: Ian Loudoun and Troy Beckingham.
Heat 4: 1st Brooke Tatnell, 2nd Cameron Gessner, 3rd Brad Maiolo, 4th David Priolo, 5th Shane Norris, 6th Trent Pigdon, 7th Carl Dowling, 8th Jamie Maiolo, 9th Lee Nash, 10th Jake Beard-Miller, 11th Sheldon Brady, 12th Callum Williamson, 13th Matt Young. DNF: Damian Blacka.*
Bronze shootout : Brad Maiolo 14.119, Jason Kendrick 14.128, David Priolo 14.180, Shane Norris 14.535.
Silver shootout : Jason Kendrick 13.833, Cameron Gesner 14.039, LukeDillon 14.126, Brad Maiolo 14.380.
Gold shootout : Brooke Tatnell 13.883, Shaun Bradford 14.074, Cameron Gessner 14.099, Jason Kendrick 14.122.
Feature : 1st Brooke Tatnell, 2nd Cameron Gessner, 3rd Shaun Bradford, 4th Luke Dillon, 5th Brad Maiolo, 6th Ian Loudoun, 7th Jamie Maiolo, 8th Shane Norris, 9th Trent Pigdon 10th Cale Sotiroff, 11th Sheldon Brady, 12th Matt Young, 13th Ryan Lancaster, 14th Daniel Harding, 15th Jason Pryde, 16th Kent Roberts. Digger
::: Con "Mr Speedway" Migro